Bod-Inc: M-176
Mela, Pomponius
Cosmographia, sive De situ orbis.
Analysis of Content
a2r Mela, Pomponius: Cosmographia, sive De situ orbis. See M‑175.
Imprint
Imprint: Venice: [Printer of Pomponius Mela], 15 Nov. 1477. 4°.
Collation
Collation: a–g8 h6.
Remarks: Leaf a2 signed a, a3 aii, etc.
References
ISTC: im00448000
Hain: H 11015; HC 11012 (var.);
Goff: Goff M‑448;
BMC: BMC V 261;
Proctor: Pr 5658;
Others: CIBN M‑280; Sheppard 3585-6. Microfiche: Unit 3: Image of the World: Geography and Cosmography.
LCN: 14453866, 14453916
Copies
Copy number: M-176(1)
Wanting the blank leaves a1 and h6.
The variant issue, without date or place of printing. Leaf g7v, l. 1: ‘per eā rara: & nō grādia flumina emanant | . . .’
Binding: Eighteenth/nineteenth-century half brown morocco with red pasteboards.
Size: 205 × 135 × 12 mm.
Size of leaf: 200 × 125 mm.
On b5r a marginal note, extracting a key word, in a humanist hand. In the upper margin of the front pastedown, a note in a nineteenth-century hand: ‘U. Benis(?) no. 5388 raris[sim]o'.
Provenance: Vienna, Augustinian Hermits, SS. Sebastianus et Rochus; inscription on a1r in a seventeenth/eighteenth-century hand: ‘Convent: Generalis Viennen. Ord. Erem. S. P. Augustini as SS. Sebastia: et Rochi'. Date of acquisition unknown; most books with neighbouring shelfmarks were acquired during the 1840s.
SHELFMARK: Auct. Q 5.42.
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